Thirty children from from poor families throughout Vietnam will undergo operations for carrying out for other congenital and acquiring severe penile inadequacies thank to the 10th mission of Thien Nhan and Friends (Genital Reconstruction for Children) which started in Hanoi at Viet Duc Hospital on November 18, then will move to Danang Mother and Children Hospital and finally to Ho Chi Minh City at Children’s Hospital 2.

The rate of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in the country fell by 16 per cent between 2009 and 2015, but health experts have said that more needs to be done to reach the goal of having a transmission rate of under 2 per cent by 2020 nationwide.

Vietnam may have become the second Asian country, following Thailand, to report a case of microcephaly due to Zika contraction, with a four-month-old girl in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak showing signs of the birth defect.

The husband of a pregnant woman, who is the first case infected with Zika virus in the southern province of Binh Duong, has showed similar symptoms of the disease two days after she was tested positive for the virus.

NEW DELHI: A woman gave birth to a premature but healthy baby girl mid-flight while travelling from the United Arab Emirates to the Philippines, forcing the plane to carry out an emergency landing in India.

NEW DELHI: A woman gave birth to a premature but healthy baby girl mid-flight while travelling from the United Arab Emirates to the Philippines, forcing the plane to carry out an emergency landing in India.